Three years' jail for Catholic brother who abused boys, then moved on

A Catholic brother who was moved by his order to other schools interstate after he sexually abused students at De La Salle College in Malvern has been jailed for at least three years.

Former De La Salle brother Frank Terrence Keating, 75, was on Friday sentenced to five years and three months in jail for indecently assaulting eight students between 1969 and 1977.

The victims were aged between 11 to 15.

Those crimes mean he has now been jailed for sexually abusing 26 children in total in Victoria and Queensland from the late 1960s to early 1980s.

County Court Judge Gregory Lyon said Keating's "audacious" offending included sexually assaulting one boy in the child's bed, after Keating had been invited to the family home for a dancing night; and molesting another boy during a drive, after which the Catholic brother had a cup of tea with his victim's parents.

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Judge Lyon said the De La Salle order knew Keating had abused students before they moved him from Victoria to South Australia and Queensland.